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Astronomers detect vast amounts of gas and dust around black hole in early universe

Submitted by jamesrm on Mon, 04/02/2012 - 07:44

Dr. Venemans comments: "It’s really puzzling that such an enormous amount of carbon-enriched gas could have formed at these early times in the universe. The presence of so much carbon confirms that massive star formation must have occurred in the short period between the Big Bang and the time we are now observing the galaxy.”